How much does Northwest Institute of Research give?

Northwest Institute of Research reported 90 itemized grants totaling $961,171, out of $2,705,993 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 59 and 145 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.

What does Northwest Institute of Research fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are Education (99%), Health (1%).

Who are Northwest Institute of Research's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Erie ($590k), Child Development Centers Inc ($215k), The Learning Lamp Inc ($174k).

Does Northwest Institute of Research fund new organizations?

In FY2020, 34% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Northwest Institute of Research?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Early Connections Inc, Erie Community Foundation, Central Pennsylvania Scholarship Fund.

Where is Northwest Institute of Research based?

Northwest Institute of Research is based in PA.

Northwest Institute of Research

Northwest Institute of Research at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

Northwest Institute of Research

The NORTHWEST INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH, a nonprofit research and technical assistance organization, partners with public and private human service organizations and their stakeholders to build and operate high quality, accountable, and results-driven programs.

$2.7M

Granted FY2020

Grants FY2020

States reached

$107k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Education$7.4MHealth$57k

02FY2020 · 90 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 90 grants below total $961,171, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,705,993 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,744,822 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2020

Under $10k56 grants · $285k
$10k–50k33 grants · $570k
$50k–250k1 grant · $107k

$7,720

Median grant

States reached

$9.0M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
YMCA OF GREATER ERIE	$106,590
EARLY CONNECTIONS INC	$37,370
CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC	$34,440
ST MARTIN CENTER INC	$31,913
SAINT VINCENT HEALTH CENTER	$24,540
KUEHG CORP	$23,693
MERCYHURST CHILD LRNG CENTER INC	$22,645
TIMBER RIDGE CHILD CARE	$22,173
IROCK FITNESS	$22,089
MEADVILLE YMCA	$20,050
FIRST ASSEMBLY OF GOD HERMITAGE PA	$19,320
STONE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH CHILD CTR	$17,715
GROWING AND LEARNING CENTER LLC	$17,275
HEALTHY KIDS CHILDCARE LLC	$17,152
CREATIVE PRESCHOOL & DAY CARE	$16,590

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $240k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$6.8M · 128 repeat orgs$662k to everyone else

128 repeat relationships: 59 still active in FY2020, 69 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

128

Total granted

$6.8M

$501k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%

+36%

Still filing today

34%

19%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $160k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesEducationHealthRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentPublic BenefitOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

CD
CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $215k · revenue +128%
TL
THE LEARNING LAMP INC
2× · 2017–2018 · $174k · revenue +117%
SM
St Martin Center
9× · 2017–2025 · $166k · revenue +47%

Funded once

CC
Cen-Clear Child Services Incgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $39k · revenue +29%
PC
PENSLETON CHILD CARE CENTER INC
one grant, 2017 · $30k
CA
CHILD ADVOCATES OF BLAIR COUNTY INCgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +36%

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Bucksport Area Child Care Center

It is our mission to provide a child-centered environment, treating each child and family with respect.

Human Services

Kearney Family Ymca

We offer a wide variety of programs and services, providing opportunities for adults and children to improve in spirit, mind and body. the ymca has childcare and preschool for children. we also have fitness classes, swim lessons, and…

Human Services

Concerned Citizens Child Care Inc

Programs to benefit proper development of children including operation of child day care center.

Human Services

Young Child Associates

Young Child Assiciates mission is to keep children safe and to support families in the daily care and guidance of their children. Our programs are designed to promote social, academic and personal growth using large and small group…

Human Services

Child Care Center of the Common Ground Foundation

Provide child care services to the community for children ages 16 weeks to 12 years.

Human Services

Hilltop Community Childrens Center

Our mission is to provide a safe, nurturing, and educational environment for children while their parents are working, in school, or in job training programs.

Human Services

The Young Men's Christian Association of Delaware County

The young men's christian association of delaware county d/b/a the community ymca of eastern delaware county ("the community ymca or "the organization") was organized on december 14, 1948 under the laws of pennsylvania as a nonprofit…

Human Services

Diamond Street Early Childhood Cent

Provide a nurturing, safe environment where children can explore and learn about their world. by recognizing each child as a unique individual, children will learn to respect others, be kind, cooperate, and share while developing a strong…

Education

The Children's Center

To provide an atmosphere that will enhance social, emotional, physical and intellectual skills for children in a safe and happy environment.

Human Services

The Children's Center

To meet the needs of the community by providing quality child care that encourages individual development in a safe, nuturing environment

Human Services

Carriage House Children's Center Inc

The primary purpose of the organization is to provide structured day care programs for pre-school children. the organization is dedicated to the nurturing, care and education of infants, toddlers, and pre-school children. the center owns…

Human Services

Christ Church Day Care Inc

Building a stronger tomorrow through nurturing today.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Community Services of Lawrence County; the most unlike its peers is Mom's House Inc of Johnstown. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

64 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 64 of the 201 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

62/64

Grantees still filing

44/64

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$4,724,452Human Services$2,029,850Education$439,438Recreation & Sports$100,989Health$85,641Youth Development$38,276Public Benefit$13,287Community Improvement$5,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Early Connections IncPA30.4× affinity12 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Early Connections Inc · Erie Community Foundation · Central Pennsylvania Scholarship Fund · United Way of Erie County · Second Harvest Food Bank of Nw Pa Inc · Northwest Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio · Buhl Regional Health Foundation · National Council of YMCAs of the USA · Wabtec Foundation · Aj and Sigismunda Palumbo Charitable Trust · McElhattan Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Northwest Institute of Research funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Northwest Institute of Research. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

32report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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